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The obvious deception here is that winning can’t be everything, by definition it is at most half of everything. The other half is losing, which our society tends to deny and avoids. But that’s not healthy, whole or rational. We will face as many losses in our life as wins; and the older we get…
The problem with ‘original sin’ is that it starts the greatest story ever told in the middle, not the beginning. We did fall and allowed evil into the world, true, but that is chapter three of Genesis. Chapter one is when almighty God made everything before us, galaxies, earth, oceans, whales, quarks and leptons and…
So if you want true Lent summed up in 250 characters or less, don’t go to twitter, go the beautiful and inspiring words of the Prophet Joel and go to them often. ‘Even now, says the lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; rend your hearts, not your…
Our Gospel reading today shows us in a powerful way that if you want to get anywhere in life Jesus can get you there. And he can get you there fast. It is written that the disciples just starting rowing across the lake, a vast lake and when they saw Jesus immediately the boat reached…
Dn. Alex Calikyan’s Sunday message on how we derive authority in our society and in God’s kingdom.
‘A proud man’ wrote Lewis ‘is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.’ Pride also distorts our second love of others. ‘Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,’ Lewis continues, ‘only out of having more of…
Jesus is not saying that God has a hit squad that takes out people who are sinners, and you could be next. Jesus’ whole life is contrary to that. What he seems to be saying is that, since we are all going to die, and since we are all sinners, the only way that our…